Bravo UCI: professor to examine aftermath Boston Marathon bombings

Team Imaginateurs took first place at the Autism AppJam event in April. From left to right: Eddie Lei, Ryan Phung, Kenneth Fernandez, Sreevatsa Sreeraman, Eliena Mahgerefteh. PHOTO COURTESY OF DONALD BREN SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCES

Roxane Cohen Silver, a professor of psychology and social behavior for UC Irvine's School of Social Ecology, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research Grant to examine the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Silver met with members of Congress to advocate for funding social and behavioral sciences at a briefing in Washington D.C. called "Social Science Research on Disasters: Communication, Resilience and Consequences."

The briefing focused on social science research and human resilience after disasters and terrorist attacks.

STUDENT EARNS LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP

Ph.D. student Kelsey Norman will spend this summer in Morocco to study Arabic. She is the recipient of a U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship that will allow her to spend eight weeks abroad to further study the language.

Norman is one of approximately 600 American college students to receive the award.

"I'm thrilled about the opportunity to continue building my language skills in a new Arabic-speaking country and familiarizing myself with Morocco's sociopolitical and cultural context as part of my pre-dissertation research," said Norman.

STUDENTS CREATE APPS FOR AUTISM

More than 100 students participated in the Autism AppJam event hosted by the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, and the UCI School of Medicine. The AppJam was a two week competition where student teams developed mobile apps to benefit people with autism.

First place went to the Imaginateurs team for the "Visual Reader" app, which teaches autistic children how to read through the use of images.

Team Imaginateurs took first place at the Autism AppJam event in April. From left to right: Eddie Lei, Ryan Phung, Kenneth Fernandez, Sreevatsa Sreeraman, Eliena Mahgerefteh. PHOTO COURTESY OF DONALD BREN SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Kelsey Norman
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